Quotes About Transcendence

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as 'God's Not Dead' stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity's existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites.

You can't kill a minuet de la coeur. You may shut up the music book... but surely the minuet-- the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping itself still.

She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.

Like any other human activity, religion can be abused and made to exacerbate our frightened egoism instead of helping us to transcend it.

Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form...

We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.

When someone so young and lovely vanishes they leave a cutout in the atmosphere; they don't fade. They leave a place for the sun rays to cut through and burn us, melt all the important ice to floods.

My breath clouded the air like a little ghost escaping from my body.

I am struck most strongly by her introspection, solitude, perfect self-awareness and sense of purpose…The beauty and truth of her words have transcended the limits placed upon her life by the darkness of human nature.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

You cannot fix your gaze upon it! Senses cannot record it. No words describe it. -Alia

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. —T. Robbins

No conoceréis al miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Sólo estaré yo.

The universe can be understood only by the wind.

Postoje stvari koje rije?i ne mogu objasniti. Moraš ih doživjeti bez rije?i.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

That which makes a man superhuman is terrifying.

One can contemplate the Emperor and his powers comfortably if one remembers that all things are finite

So you're not a child," Jessica said. "I'm millions of years old. That requires adjustments which humans have never before been called upon to make.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Carnea cedeaz?, gândi el. Eternitatea îÈ™i ia înapoi ceea ce-i aparÈ›ine. Trupurile noastre au agitat, o vreme, apele. O vreme, am fost intoxicaÈ›i de dragoste de via??, de dragoste de sine, o vreme am nutrit câteva idei stranii, înainte de a ne supune instrumentelor Timpului.

Ele fala da morte porque isso é necessário. É a tensão por meio da qual os vivos sabem que estão vivos.